Bitcoin Gold (BTG)

[Kryptowerk]

I just can't understand the hype for BGold. Seems to me to be just an attempt to jump on the Bitcoin fork hype train.

Looking at this comparison chart it becomes clear to me which coin I prefere:

[virasog]

Lol, it has its own wallets apparently. This is funnier than the last one. I cannot believe that this far in advance there are actually those that can be scammed. I am all about suckers losing their money, but this is even beyond that point. It is like people buying swamp land, but now they are buying it ten years down the road, rather than right here and now, this is the best one I have seen yet and it just keeps getting better and better.

[cryptoc*nt]

Hello! Does anyone know if or how to get Bitcoin gold out of an Mycellium wallet or if it is even possible? I have a friend that put his BTC in there before the fork becuase he was told that they were supporting it. I don't know anything about this wallet so any help would be appreciated!

[MadMac]

The btcgpu.org domain now is forwarded to bitcoingold.org.

Great job guys, why don't you focus an the real issues? Where is the desktop wallet?

Pretty much a smokescreen.

[johnnysof]

Hello! Does anyone know if or how to get Bitcoin gold out of an Mycellium wallet or if it is even possible? I have a friend that put his BTC in there before the fork becuase he was told that they were supporting it. I don't know anything about this wallet so any help would be appreciated!

If I remember it right the android version was able to export the private keys.
It should be under the keys tab, by selecting the account and export the keys.

[toltec3000]

https://www.electrum-gold.org/

[MadMac]

https://www.electrum-gold.org/

Wow, now there is a 3rd party wallet from someone completely new kid on the block. Nothing from the "developers", but another clone we don't know without giving credit to the original developers of Electrum.

Shady shady....gray...dark. Very dark.

"BTC GPU SAINT LLC." Right.

No sources, nothing. Give me all your Coins 

[NaissuR]

 all i can say about bitcoin gold is that this fork is not legit :/ good luck to you all who believe in that

[Berk]

I just can't understand the hype for BGold. Seems to me to be just an attempt to jump on the Bitcoin fork hype train.

Looking at this comparison chart it becomes clear to me which coin I prefere:

It's only got hype because anyone who held Bitcoin got a free coin for nothing and was able to make some money on it. But theymos the owner of the forum even called it out as a scam and he doesn't normally get involved in alt coins .

[MadMac]

How were you able to make money on it? I still have my BTC in my wallet and there is no BTG wallet. As written before I'd also not risk any transaction for that BTG scam coin to lose my BTC.

So, question remains, where is the "official" BTG wallet?!

[cryptonomicon25]

I doubt there will ever be an official BTG wallet, just a bunch of shady wallets trying to steal your Bitcoin. If you find one that seems legit just be sure to remove all of your Bitcoin from your wallet or sweep the keys into a new Bitcoin wallet before sweeping into the BCG wallet. I would also install the BCG wallet on a separate computer that doesn't have any of your wallets. This way your funds will be safe.

[Mystic90]

when can i get my bitcoin gold so i can sell it immediatly! No i didnt split it on exchange

[MadMac]

I doubt there will ever be an official BTG wallet, just a bunch of shady wallets trying to steal your Bitcoin. If you find one that seems legit just be sure to remove all of your Bitcoin from your wallet or sweep the keys into a new Bitcoin wallet before sweeping into the BCG wallet. I would also install the BCG wallet on a separate computer that doesn't have any of your wallets. This way your funds will be safe.

Exactly, that is a megascam. And now the other rotten marauders jump on the train.

[tarosan4379]

How were you able to make money on it? I still have my BTC in my wallet and there is no BTG wallet. As written before I'd also not risk any transaction for that BTG scam coin to lose my BTC.

So, question remains, where is the "official" BTG wallet?!

I do not think there is any official wallet yet.

[Tavarez]

didn't receive any BTG, all my positions were in BCH. it took a period of time but all believers in bch were awarded after today's pump.

[Blawpaw]

I still don't understand if Blockchain.info will support BTG. Anyone with some intel on that?

[Majormax]

I still don't understand if Blockchain.info will support BTG. Anyone with some intel on that?

Of course they won't support it, because of the security risk inherent in giving away all private keys to an unproven software system.

You will have to extract your own private key entirely at your own risk in order to particpate in BTG.

[Greenrace]

When it will be happen? I just heard about bitcoin gold recently. If the scheme like when bitcoin cash born, I mean fork on November, who is hold bitcoin on their wallet will receive bitcoin gold, this is good chance for buying bitcoin when bitcoin get deep correction.

new things that I know about this, from the information in the forum that it is very beneficial apabla properly realized in the coming months, I am looking forward to this happen

[illyiller]

I still don't understand if Blockchain.info will support BTG. Anyone with some intel on that?

Of course they won't support it, because of the security risk inherent in giving away all private keys to an unproven software system.

You will have to extract your own private key entirely at your own risk in order to particpate in BTG.

Blockchain.info is not exposed to that risk by offering support for Bitcoin Gold. As it is, Blockchain.info (the company) is not a custodial third party web wallet. They don't know your private keys. So they wouldn't be "giving away all private keys to an unproven software system"... they would only be allowing users to push signed transactions on the BTG chain in addition to the BTC, BCH and ETH chains.

However, I doubt they'll do it. I don't think the hype around Bitcoin Gold can sustain, and there's much less community interest in it (as far as I can tell) vs. Bitcoin Cash. Most people think it's "free money" (to dump for BTC) or they think it's a scam. I guess it's both.

[Majormax]

I still don't understand if Blockchain.info will support BTG. Anyone with some intel on that?

Of course they won't support it, because of the security risk inherent in giving away all private keys to an unproven software system.

You will have to extract your own private key entirely at your own risk in order to particpate in BTG.

Blockchain.info is not exposed to that risk by offering support for Bitcoin Gold. As it is, Blockchain.info (the company) is not a custodial third party web wallet. They don't know your private keys. So they wouldn't be "giving away all private keys to an unproven software system"... they would only be allowing users to push signed transactions on the BTG chain in addition to the BTC, BCH and ETH chains.

However, I doubt they'll do it. I don't think the hype around Bitcoin Gold can sustain, and there's much less community interest in it (as far as I can tell) vs. Bitcoin Cash. Most people think it's "free money" (to dump for BTC) or they think it's a scam. I guess it's both.

 Yes .info are not themsleves exposed, but they take their duty of care to users seriously enough to avoid appearing to endorse a potentially risky situation for their customers.

The point being that Blockchain can write a routine by which users can claim their coins in a chain fork, but they have to actually take a further step in order to faciltate participation in a new chain which is effectively what BTG is.  The term 'Fork' is being used ambiguously to describe both a Chain Hard Fork, and a Fork of the Codebase to start a new chain.